94 STAT. 2088
22 USC 3963.
5 USC 5301. 22 USC 3964.
Post, p. 2092. 5 USC 3501. Post, p. 2094. 5 USC 5361.
22 USC 3965.
PUBLIC LAW 96-465—OCT. 17, 1980
and shall prescribe an appropriate title for each class. Basic salary rates for the Senior Foreign Service may not exceed the maximum rate or be less than the minimum rate of basic pay payable for the Senior Executive Service under section 5382 of title 5, United States Code, and shall be adjusted at the same time and in the same manner as rates of basic pay are adjusted for the Senior Executive Service. (b)(1) An individual who is a career appointee in the Senior Executive Service receiving basic pay at one of the rates payable under section 5382 of title 5, United States Code, and who accepts a limited appointment in the Senior Foreign Service in a salary class for which the basic salary rate is less than such basic rate of pay, shall be paid a salary at his or her former basic rate of pay (with adjustments as provided in paragraph (2)) until the salary for his or her salary class in the Senior Foreign Service equals or exceeds the salary payable to such individual under this subsection. (2) The salary paid to an individual under this subsection shall be adjusted by 50 percent of each adjustment, which takes effect after the appointment of such individual to the Senior Foreign Service, in the basic rate of pay at which that individual was paid under section 5382 of title 5, United States Code, immediately prior to such appointment. SEC. 403. FOREIGN SERVICE SCHEDULE.—The President shall establish a Foreign Service Schedule which shall consist of 9 salary classes and which shall apply to members of the Service who are citizens of the United States and for whom salary rates are not otherwise provided for by this chapter. The maximum salary rate for the highest class established under this section, which shall be designated class 1, may not exceed the maximum rate of basic pay prescribed for GS-15 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code. Salary rates established under this section shall be adjusted in accordance with subchapter I of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code. SEC. 404. ASSIGNMENT TO A SALARY CLASS.—(a) The Secretary shall assign all For e i ^ Service officers and Foreign Service personnel (other than Foreign Service personnel who are paid in accordance with section 407 or who are family members of Government employees paid in accordance with a local compensation plan established under section 408) to appropriate salary classes in the Foreign Service Schedule. (b)(1) The salary class to which a member of the Service is assigned under this section shall not be affected by the assignment of the member to a position classified under chapter 5. (2) Except as authorized by subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 5, United States Code, changes in the salary class of a member of the Senior Foreign Service or a member of the Service assigned to a salary class in the Foreign Service Schedule shall be made only in accordance with chapter 6. The Secretary shall prescribe regulations (which shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of subchapter VI of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, and with the regulations prescribed to carry out such provisions) providing for retention of pay by members of the Service in cases in which reduction-in-force procedures are applied. SEC. 405. PERFORMANCE PAY.—(a) Members of the Senior Foreign Service who are serving— (1) under career or career candidate appointments, or (2) under limited appointments with reemployment rights under section 310 as career appointees in the Senior Executive Service,
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